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by soundwave106 8y ago
Actually, I more tend to agree with this article ( https://techcrunch.com/2013/02/18/tumblr-is-not-what-you-thi... ) that a big part of the appeal of Tumblr was a bit more the opposite of this: Tumblr could act
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by soundwave106 8y ago
Generally speaking, in the entertainment industry, you have a few individuals that are pulling in a lot of money... and a huge bunch of people doing very similar things that pull in nothing. My assumption is that the Youtube world here is s
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by soundwave106 8y ago
That's not a problem of their own making, their payment processors essentially dropped them for (cough) "blood, needles, and vampirism" (per the announcement). See https://pastebin.com/FFSQUML9 and https:&#x
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by soundwave106 8y ago
The problem here is the initial opioid crisis hardly involved China at all. Instead it largely involved US pharmaceutical companies like Purdue Pharma's over-aggressive promotion of Oxycontin. China and fentanyl only came into the pict
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by soundwave106 8y ago
Based on this CDC paper -- https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hestat/obesity_adult_07_08/obe... -- the numbers for the US look absolutely correct to me. Note that the percentage of overweight but not obese
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by soundwave106 8y ago
Agreed, simply "please use the unaccented letter" would have been fine instructions. Accented letters are pretty "normal" in many languages.
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by soundwave106 8y ago
The main "fear porn" here that I think relates, and it's more of a tangent than any direct connection, is the propaganda associated with the War On Drugs, just as a comparison to the realities of the opioid epidemic. Some of
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by soundwave106 8y ago
Pre-public education America was also more rural. The rise of public education is tied to some degree to industrialization and urbanization in the 19th to early 20th century. ( https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007&#
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by soundwave106 8y ago
I personally think the 3.5mm TRS jack is more reliable than Bluetooth :) but I would like to comment that this is not the most durable jack out there, so the relative fragility of 3.5mm also is a solvable problem. The music industry standar
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by soundwave106 8y ago
Yeah, it's all for freedom of movement at shows. Even though wireless transmitters have gotten a lot better than previous times (in the 1980s one of the Spinal Tap spoofs was getting radio interference in their wireless guitar system i
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by soundwave106 8y ago
I can certainly think of possible cases where the mental help needed might involve more than a help line or support group long term. Heck there might even be cases when physical health help is what is unavailable in the long term -- chron
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by soundwave106 8y ago
You don't have to be a total 100% monopoly market to be successfully accused of anti-competitive behavior, however. When Microsoft was ruled to have violated antitrust laws in the early 2000s, there were alternatives available for brow
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by soundwave106 8y ago
The politics might be another story though? In particular, since there is a link between nuclear power and nuclear weapons, I wonder if, just due to the politics involving this alone, if nuclear can ever be adopted as a global solution for
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by soundwave106 8y ago
Sorry, by "Western" I more refer to the countries (United States, Canada, UK) where bidets of any sort do not seem to be common at all. There are also other Western countries (such as France, Germany, and Spain) where I remember b
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by soundwave106 8y ago
I echo that the toilet hose or (apparently this is the common slang for them) "bum guns" that you see in many Asian restrooms would be pretty cool to retrofit to a Western restroom (they really are more sanitary than the simple pa
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by soundwave106 8y ago
It is and if voting id laws are shaped in a non discriminatory manner, this could be one of many alternative documents to the "standard" driving license. But equal access is what matters here. If the ruleset is such where you make
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by soundwave106 8y ago
For that reason I actually think the allowance of identification that has long been expired, for those over 70, is the stronger sign of the direction. Why is old age a privilege in Texas voter ID law in that you no longer have to actively r
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by soundwave106 8y ago
There is no national identity card in the United States and there traditionally has been strong bipartisan resistance against this sort of an initiative in this country. The defacto "photo ID" in the United States is a state issue
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by soundwave106 8y ago
I think the advantage right now is largely in a few select sectors right now, and mainly due to ecosystem. Music production is a big one from my perspective -- currently, if you are looking at the tools and plugins that are the most popular
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by soundwave106 8y ago
There are a lot of places in the United States that are well between "middle of nowhere" and current high housing cost markets like San Francisco and NYC. Technology wise I have heard of decent activity (including in a few of thes
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by soundwave106 8y ago
What this bill might help (or at least give law enforcement additional tools to prosecute with) is preventing situations like the Cambridge Analytica situation, where corporations with nefarious motives gather user profile information from
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by soundwave106 8y ago
Aren't most cloud computing currently almost completely HDDs at this point? At least, this is the impression that I get from looking at the case of Backblaze (which is probably the cloud storage center with the most public statistics o
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by soundwave106 8y ago
Merzbow frequently utilizes fetish and BDSM imagery / concepts and from the article perspective (although about death metal, it is similarly seen as "extreme music") I find that part of the article's conclusions interest
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by soundwave106 8y ago
What makes Facebook stand out here to me is just how difficult they've made for people to do create isolated social networks on a personal level, at least in my experience. It is possible to limit your Facebook feed to friends and fami
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by soundwave106 8y ago
While you are right that this is indeed some of the "sacred music from this time period", there are some significant style differences. The Hillsong song still is very pop chord-cyclic. Much of the song is dominated by a variation
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by soundwave106 8y ago
Agree that the term wasn't helpful overall (it unfortunately is politically loaded). But looking at the original paper (already posted but re-linked here -- http://info.digitalshadows.com/rs/457-XEY-671/images
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by soundwave106 8y ago
IMHO the Damore memo got way too heavy into the political angles at the end (straying away from the science and citing non-analytical political opinion pieces and even an anti-feminist Wordpress blog of all things), so I'm not sure I&#
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by soundwave106 8y ago
To clarify, most of the fan-recorded Doctor Who episodes recovered were of the audio only. Home video recording was extremely expensive until roughly the 1980s -- I am not aware of video recovered by home fan enthusiasts. Most of the reco
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by soundwave106 8y ago
The issue here is that this more or less blames the messenger and not what I see as the root cause. For a long time (1980s-2000s for sure), major fossil fuel companies and other extraction industries -- famously ExxonMobil and Koch Industri
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by soundwave106 8y ago
What I can see happening sometimes is that the author doesn't have a page, but the page on the science clearly cites the person that ended up winning the Nobel. In this case, the Wikipedia article on chirped pulse amplification has c

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